Lilli Suburg

Lilli Suburg (actually Caroline Suburg; * 20.jul / August 1 1841greg in Rousa, today rural community Vändra, .. † February 8, 1923 in Valga ) was an Estonian writer.

Life and work

Lilli Suburg visited until 1859, German -speaking girls' high school in Pärnu. 1869 she put in Tartu from her exams as a primary school and a private tutor. Soon it Lilli Suburg but to journalism. 1878/79 she was an editor of the newspaper Perno Postimees. From 1887 to 1895 she worked as a ( responsible ) editor at the first Estonian woman's magazine Linda in Viljandi, whose co-founder she was. In 1882 she founded a girls' school in Pärnu, who moved in 1885 to Viljandi. It was conducted from 1893 to 1898 by her adopted daughter Anna Wiegandt.

Characteristic of Lilli Suburg the meeting with Carl Robert Jakobson, the most important representative of the Estonian national consciousness of that time was. Jakobson had lived since 1872 in Vändra and invited Suburg often nationally-oriented conversation evenings. At his suggestion Lilli Suburg published in 1877 the story Liina who turned against the dominant position of the Germans in the educational circles of Estonia and Livonia. There followed in 1882 the stories Maarja yes Eeva ehk: Suguluse truudus yes Armastus mehe vastu and 1900 Linda, rahva tütar. Lilli Suburg was with her literary work and one of the most famous representatives of the women's movement and the National Erwachsens in Estonia. She also wrote numerous articles in various newspapers and magazines. 1899 moved Suburg to her adoptive daughter and her husband to Omuļi (Estonian Hoomuli ) in the Latvian part of Livonia. By 1906 she was head of a private school for Estonian girls. 1923/24, published her memoirs under the title perekond Suburgide.